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Audit Of The Charlie Ticketing System

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The Incident<br />Three MIT students explored the obvious weaknesses at the MBTA.<br />The MBTA’s fare-collection system named the Charlie Card was “hacked” to show false values.<br />The entire MBTA facility was shown to be lacking security in general.<br />

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What Happened?<br />The students got into the building through unlocked doors.<br />Many locks were unlocked on rooms, phone boxes, and networking systems. <br />They also found a key and other physical identification that should not have been laying around.<br />They also eventually hacked the Charlie card’s mag-stripe value and then explored the RFID cards.<br />They documented their entire experience with photos and assembled a slideshow. Link Here<br />